A brilliant novel, set in Denmark in the 1760s, vividly recreates the era of Danish history when Johann Friedrich Struensee, a German doctor from Altona, student of Diderot and Voltaire, and court physician to King Christian, introduced many reforms, including freedom of the press and better treatment of the peasantry, but whose inability to select the right enemies at court led to his torture and execution.
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"Realized with a vividness and subtlety that place the book in the front ranks of contemporary literary fiction." --The New York Times Book Review
"An extraordinarily elegant and gorgeous novel." --Los Angeles Times
"An enthralling fable of the temptations of power--and a surprisingly poignant love story." --Time
Per Olov Enquist is the Swedish journalist, playwright, and novelist.The Royal Physician's Visit received the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the August Prize, and the Nelly Sachs Prize, and was shortlisted for the IMPAC literary award.
Tiina Nunnally has translated work by Astrid Lindgren, Henning Mankell, and Peter Hoeg, among others.
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